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When it comes to the examination room at your healthcare clinic, you might think that avoiding catching the flu or other more deadly viruses is out of your hands, so to speak. But infectious disease experts at the University of Texas Health...

Patients with kidney failure who are treated with hemodialysis are at substantially increased risk of life-threatening infections. A feature article and a series of Perspectives articles in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of...

Antibiotics continue to be prescribed at alarming rates in outpatient settings, despite increased national attention to curtail inappropriate use of these drugs, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the...

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), a founding member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Safe Injection Practices (SIP) Coalition, found that the level of deficiencies associated with the...

Using catheters to access the blood during hemodialysis continues to be linked with increased rates of bloodstream infections, according to a recent analysis of data from U.S. dialysis facilities. The findings appear in an upcoming issue of the...

Policies relating to newly emerging and highly infectious diseases in outpatient healthcare settings within the context of infection prevention and control are highly variable, according to public health experts, leaving many gaps in patient...